European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday november 9.1988 Long memories relive Kristal nacht Young lives shaped by Ferror of Haf Century ago by de Reavis  writers a Lidia More than 75,000 people lived in the City of file la Wisl Germany on the night of nov. 9.1938.nine Hundred seventy five were jews. Today a Tew still remember that night of broken Glass. They were Young most of them very Young. Their lives have been shaped by Kristal Nachi and the nights that were to follow. One lore scuba Char was 13 a half Century ago when inc nazi a the storm troopers pushed through the door of her family s Home Jusi North of the City s Fri Hail Square ii was an hour or two after Midnight. My Mother was in tears and my father was i suppose devastated is the Correct word. He could believe what was happening. There were two a men in our  the family was ordered dressed clothes Over pyjamas then shoved and pushed Down to inc Kirche Strasse Sulzbacher Sard it was cold and dark and there were umpteen jewish families standing around in the Square. Nobody knew what was happen ing or where we were going. Just before Daybreak we were taken to a big Hal with a stage to me it looked like a big theater and we had to sit Down on these benches. We were there Umit the afternoon. And the whole time they fetched people up onto the stage and decided they had to perform like animals jump Over doors and tables and  those who would t perform were beaten. It was 1 think one of the big Gisl horrors i remember in retrospect the night of broken Glass ranks As Mere dress rehearsal for other bigger horrors that were to come. At the Lime however Kristal nacht served at a lest ordered by propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels Oxbow far the National socialists might go. When a Young polish jew shot German Diplomat Ernst com Roth on the streets of parts Goebbel seized the Opportunity. In what the nazis would Call a spontaneous reaction to the shoaling storm troopers and their sympathizers poured into the jewish sections of cities All Over Germany burning synagogues and smashing windows until the cobbled streets glittered with broken Glass. Same 30,000 jewish men were taken intoscfiulzria/1, a Security confinement the nazis said was meant to protect them from harm. Most were released after six or eight weeks but the message was  than gloss would be broken in the months and years to come. When 10,000 jews were hauled to concentration amps in the Wake of Kristal nacht Emil Carlebach already had spent 18 months at the internment Center at Buchenwald charged with sedition and being a jew. A third of the jews rounded up during the night of broken Glass were marched through the Gates of Buchenwald under the Metal sign thai read Arbeit Machi Frei Freedom through work. Storm troopers armed with clubs and whips formed a grisly Gauntlet through which the arriving jews were forced to run. The Earth was covered with Hals briefcases and ".  spirals flier he burning borne Slalz synagogue in Frankfurt a jewish landmark that reduced to ruins. Other articles the men dropped trying to escape the blows Carlebach remembers Carlebach said the soldiers handcuffed some of the newly arrived men around a tree and turned hounds Loose on them. Seventy men Tost their minds at this and other forms of torture he said they were theft put into the prison cells where the overseer personally crushed their skulls with an Iron  of the original 10,000 prisoners brought a Buchenwald in the Days following Kristal nacht 2,000 to 3,000 were never to be released according to Carlebach. Esther Bejarano was 14 when nazi storm troopers look her father away from their Home in Neu Ulni on what jews today Call pogrom  my Mother and i went to the synagogue in Ulm where my father a school director was also the  a was chasing and besting jews around the Fountain on the Square. They All had to be taken to the  Bejarano i Maui or and Mother la ice were deposed to Riga in what is now Latvia and shot in a Forest with hundreds of other. By 1943, Bejaran was in Auschwitz playing accordion in the women s  played at the Gate to inc Camp when the prisoners were marched out to work every morning and when they returned she said. The wont experience there was when we played for the newly arrived transports. The prisoners in the cattle cars would hear the music sad think it can t be too adhere but they were taken right to the Gas Chambers Ibe  to Arnno was performing forced labor for what is now the Siemens electronics firm when the War ended. The americans and russians Mel at the own of lube. It was wonderful. They kissed and hugged an danced. They brought me an accordion and played on the Market Square while the americans an russians danced and Sang around a huge burning portrait of Adolf Hitler. It was the bus liberation you could  Max Oppenheimer 19 at inc time was living in Frankfurt. Alerted that his father and brother had Bee arrested in their Hometown of Wieloch near Heidelberg Oppenheimer rushed for Frankfurt gothic Tram station on his Way he passed the burning synagogue on continued on Page 9 huns Bider Lorraine ail Ted s4svincriwl�r Esther Bejarno